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This free tracker gives you details
of previous instances of bird flu virus their subtypes
and the places they occurred in
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When you click on any place it gives
you details of the outbreaks that occurred at that
place, zoom in and pan the map to see details clearly
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The second part of bird flu map
analyses the occurrence of birds and human cases,
and the time of their occurrence
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Both the bird and human case are
compared together and the confirmed cases as per WHO
are reported on a weekly basis
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The third part of map reports on
the H5 cases in birds all around the globe
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A zoom in / out and panning facility
is available
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A special section in the map gives
information on influenza viruses, types, sub types,
pathogenicity of these viruses, the method by which
they infect humans etc.
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Flu virus section reports on all
kinds of avian and animal flu viruses that have infected
humans, H5N1 section gives information of bird and
human cases in common areas. H5N1 in birds section
reports on bird infection all over the world
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This advanced toolbar gives you
dynamic zoom, standard zoom, reset, button operated
pan and dynamic pan facility. Go through help to understand
the map better
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Bird flu virus : Bird
flu virus has been in the news quite lately and lot of coverage
has been allocated to it in newspapers and TV channels,
but few know that this is the third biggest wave of virus
infection, this wave started in 1997 and has been in a killing
spree, it has killed 120 million birds till date This is
not just a figure, in Asia this would mean the owner of
poultry farms face sudden poverty and distress that does
not last for days but for months, as people shun eating
chicken. In last scare, about two years ago, in India about
$400 million losses were thrust on the poultry and egg sellers
and for a developing country it was a nightmarish burden.
Evolution of the killer :
The virus has been slowly and steadily evolving keeping
in step with process of evolution that every species undergoes.
As various strains mix together in the backyard poultry,
wild birds and pigs, a new strain comes into being. There
is practically no vaccine for us against H5N1, and right
now it is our good luck that is saving us from a pandemic,
because present strain of H5N1 is only 0.18% different from
big killer of 1918 that killed 40 million people. It has
a 100% kill rate in birds and 60% of humans infected till
today have died. So this is definitely a killer virus.
Antivirals : There is
a big noise about antivirals being able to cure and save
us from influenza, the problem is that it is difficult to
differentiate between avian influenza and other viral infections,
the symptoms need to identified well within 48 hours of
infection,for the antiviral to be effective, it is not a
easy task, even after a dose is taken the process of infection
gets slowed down but is not eradicated. It may still kill
its victim. The worst scenario will be when virus develops
an immunity to the antivirals as it has done in case of
amantidine.
Survive it :It is a juggernaut
and very few have survived it . The best way to survive
this virus is to avoid it, but avoidance needs understanding
it first, it is invisible to begin with, so we need to identify
its sources and transmission mechanism , we need to know
what it is and how it infects us and our pets and poultry.
We, at Goalfinder have endeavored to educate through our
movies , the films that we have developed are a result of
our efforts towards presenting "correct information",
in a simple and entertaining manner. The films have received
wide appreciation.
About
the map : The most onerous task on the web today is
to get hold of structured information on bird flu. While
creating bird flu films, we frequently came across this
stumbling block, there was either plethora of information
available or meager data on avian influenza. None was structured
and to the point, it would take a lot of research to get
to the
- Correct sequence of occurrence,
- Identify the correct virus and
- The place the outbreak happened
- Which bird was killed
- the reason for outbreak
We have collated the information in "bird flu tracker"
in three manner
- Incidence of human infection due to all types of Avian
influenza, we have covered events since 1990s
- Incidence of bird and human infection due to H5N1, compared
together
- Events of bird infection due to H5N1
We hope it would serve the purpose of infroming people
about virus
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